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American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier has been removed from general population and placed into solitary confinement at USP Lewisburg since June 27th. The 66-year old inmate has been ordered to spend 6 months in solitary stemming from various petty infractions, according to his attorney, Robert R. Bryan. Peltier, in a letter to his attorney, described […]

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Native American Activist Leonard Peltier “in the Hellhole” of Solitary Confinement

Hunger Strike in the Supermax: Pelican Bay Prisoners Protest Conditions in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: On Solitary Confinement and Finding Humanity

Confronting Torture in U.S. Prisons: A Q&A With Solitary Watch

Amnesty International Calls for Angola 3’s Release from 40 Years of Solitary Confinement

Angola 3 Mark 39 Years in Solitary Confinement

Easter As a Story of Criminal Injustice

Cruel and Usual: U.S. Solitary Confinement

Growing Resistance to the Solitary Confinement of Bradley Manning

Voices from Solitary: Imprisoned in the First Control Unit for Women

Maine Prison Whistleblower Exiled and Isolated

Inside “Little Gitmo”: Documents Detail Inmate Surveillance at Federal Prisons

Ohio Prisoners Go on Hunger Strike for Transfer from Solitary to Death Row

On Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement, and Selective Outrage

Santa Was in Prison and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

WikiLeakers Held in Solitary Confinement

“I Spent 29 Years in Solitary Confinement”

The Puppy Protection Act and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act

Russian “Spy” Anna Chapman Chose Deportation Over Solitary Confinement

Voices from the “Torture Chambers”: Solitary Confinement and Political Repression

What the War on Terror Owes to the War on Crime (Redux)

Court Rules Against Angola 3’s Albert Woodfox: No End in Sight to 38 Years in Solitary Confinement

Our Father Who Art in Prison

Voices from Solitary: Ray Luc Levasseur on Life in ADX

Film Documents the Angola 3’s 100+ Years of Solitude

Super-Secretive Supermax Prisons: Last Day to Register Opposition

Storming “Little Gitmo”: Lawsuit Challenges Restricted Units in Federal Prisons

Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk from a Cell to Freedom

The Mark of Cain: God and Man at Angola Prison